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Red Card: FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports

Red Card: FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports

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Ken Bensinger's "Red Card" is a 2019 book that won the Telegraph Sports Award for Football Book of the Year. It is a gripping account of FIFA's fall from grace, featuring novelistic devices and a journey to the organization's dark heart. The book introduces the villains and the team of American FBI and IRS agents who brought them to book, providing fresh insights on the scandal. It is a wild, gritty, and at times blackly comic story that combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd



Winner of the Telegraph Sports Award Football Book of the Year 2019


Longlisted for the Best Sports Book of the 21st Century


Sports Book Award




Gripping... Bensinger's impeccably sourced account serves as a sharp reminder of the gargantuan levels of largesse and excess during FIFA's bad, bad days - as well as a warning that not enough has been done to prevent them returning.




Sean Ingle, Guardian




Bensinger deftly deploys novelistic devices to turn it into a real-life detective thriller... [it] resembles John Grisham's Private Eye.




The story of FIFA's fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, sports stars, hustlers, corruption, sex, and phenomenal quantities of money, all set against exotic locales stretching from Caribbean beaches to the formal staterooms of the Kremlin and the sun-blasted streets of Doha, Qatar.




In Red Card, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a journey to FIFA's dark heart.




He introduces the flamboyant villains of the piece - the FIFA kingpins who flaunted their wealth in private jets and New York's grandest skyscrapers - and the dogged team of American FBI and IRS agents, headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who finally brought them to book.




Providing fresh insights on a scandal which has gripped the world, he shows how greed and arrogance brought down the most powerful institution in sporting history.




A wild, gritty, gripping, and at times blackly comic story, Red Card combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller.

Weight: 328g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781781256725
Edition number: Main

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